Fish-hook.



PATENTED JULY 10, 1906.

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FISH HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED APB..7.1905.

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CLARENCE M. CURTIS, OF WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS.

FISH-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10,1906.

Application filed April '7, 1905. Serial No. 254,4=22.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE M. CURTIs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Woodstock, in the county of McHenry and State of Illinois,have invented a new and successful Fish-Hook, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to fish-hooks.

In twenty years experience in fishing for game fish I have ascertainedthe following: first, that a bait drawn on the top of the water is abetter lure for a game fish than a bait that is below the top of thewater; second, that a game fish does not always strike the bait from thesame angle, but strikes from any and all angles or directions as soon asthe bait is discovered; third, that in most localities game fish lie inamong the thickest weeds.

It is therefore the object of my invention to provide a hook that willmeet the above recgiirements.

ther and further objects will appear in the following description andwill be more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention in the position before itis struck by a fish. Fig. 2 is a like view after the device has beenstruck by the fish.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 9 indicates a pair ofspring-arms connected together at one end by an eye 8 and normallytending to spread apart. Each arm carries a hook 4 or 5, which isslidably mounted thereon to move in a direction approximatelylongitudinally of the springarm by which it is carried. a For permittingthis sliding movement on the arms each spring-arm has a portion bentinto an eye in which the shank of a hook works, and each hook is bent toprovide an eye in which a spring-arm works. The eyes on the spring-arm 9are bent toward one another, so that the shanks of the hooks are at anangle to the spring-arms and are parallel to the line of pull when thespring-arms are expanded, thereby throwing the barbed points to theproper position to engage the walls of the mouth of the fish and at thesame time causto move inwardly away from weed guards or shields 3,secured to spring-arms 9. These shields or guards permit the device topass among weeds and like objects Without becoming entangled therewith,but are at the same time pliable enough to bare the points on beingstruck by the fish.

The means 2 for securing these guards to the spring-arms form stops forthe hooks 4 and 5 and for the slide 1, which moves on the spring-armsbetween 2 and the eye 8, said slide controlling the position of the armsand having the line 7 connected thereto and passing through the eye 8,whereby the slide may be operated when the device is at any angle to theline.

To prevent the spring-arms being compressed together too much, one ofthe springarms carries a projection 6 and the hook on the other arm is,as shown in Fig. 1, placed against one side of this projection andagainst the opposite side of the hook on the arm carrying the projection6.

In operation the bait is placed on one of the hooks 4 or 5 and thedevice adjusted as shown in Fig. 1. When the line is drawn through thewater, the bait travels on the top of the water and the other hook isturned downward. Owing to the hooks 4 and 5 having barbs, should thefish strike only one hook and miss the other it could not escape.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combinationwith an arm, of a weed shield or guard carried thereby, and a hookhaving its shank at an angle to the arm, and movable longitudinallythereof away from the shield or guard.

2. The combination with a pair of connected spring-arms, of a slide forcontrolling said arms, and a hook slidable longitudinally of each arm.

3. A fish-hook comprising a pair of springarms, an eye connecting an endof each of said arms, an eye formed at the other end of each of saidarms, a pair of hooks each having its shank movable in one of the lattereyes and having a portion formed into an eye and moving on one of saidarms, a weed shield or guard secured to the arms, and a slide forcontrolling the arms.

4. A fish-hook comprising a pair of springarms connected together, atone end of each one being carried by each arm.

of said arms, a slide for controlling the arms, In testimony whereof Ihave signed my a hook slidable longitudinally of each arm, name to thisspecification inthe presence of 10 and a Weed shield or guard for eachhook, two Witnesses.

5. A. fish-h00k comprising a pair of c0n CLARENCE CURTIS nectedspring-arms, hooks slidable on the Witnesses: arms, a slide forcontrolling the arms, and FRED B. BENNETT, stops between the slide andthe hooks. FRANK R. J AOKMAN.

